Every Monday, we post a new home whose design is presented in the designer's or the builder's own words. This week: Design: Matthew Hofmann, Hofmann Architecture Location: Roaming, currently Santa Barbara Project goal: To live in a small space. I like the idea of reducing my costs, but I al...

Aside from the Koch brothers opposing environmental regulations, they also *do not* oppose subsidies for fossil energy despite their proud libertarian bent.
more about subsidies: http://completelybaked.blogspot.com/2011/01/replace-fossil-energy-subsidies-with.html
and that daily mail article about wind turbines, etc. linked to above is a sneering and egregiously biased (anti-clean energy) piece of propaganda:
Wind energy is clean?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html
The section in the above linked article on pollution in China caused by rare earth mining is perfect argument for strict "free-trade" regulations that slap tariffs on countries that violate accepted environmental, wage, and worker safety standards. But it is not an argument against renewable energy. (There are, btw, other sources for neodymium and other rare earths, and it is possible to mine them without carelessly dumping the tailings.)
here's some info to refute that article:
http://completelybaked.blogspot.com/2009/02/renewables-intermittency-reliability.html
Cheers!
Jim Welke
(sure would be cool if everyone used their real names!)

This weekend, two billionaire brothers will hold a private, closed-door meeting of elite and powerful donors and supporters of the oil industry. You can bet that along with conga lines and Jello shooters, the agenda at Charles and David Koch's little bash will include doing everything possible t...